To read Parts 1 and 2, click here and here. After lunch the following day, our ship arrived at Cierva Cove. I was one of the first in line for the Zodiac ride because the cove was stunningly gorgeous. We were surrounded by enormous icebergs that seemed like skyscrapers, compared to our little inflatable Zodiac. The […]
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For Part 1, click here. Excited at the end of our first day in Antarctica, we set sail through the Gerlache Strait, a channel that separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. We were lucky enough to see stunning scenery in the form of dozens of enormous tabular icebergs. Tabular icebergs are slabs of ice that once […]
At the start of December, I traveled to Buenos Aires to begin the first leg of a journey following Arizona State University’s Origins Project on a cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula. I had booked the trip in order to participate in their event “Science and Adventure in Antarctica“, and ended up dragging my dad with me for […]